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Abhik Roy

Education

Western Michigan University

Ph.D. in Program Evaluation

  Kalamazoo, MI

2016

Michigan Technological University

M.S. in Mathematics

  Houghton, MI

2007

West Virginia Wesleyan College

B.S. in Mathematics

  Buckhannon, WV

2001

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor

West Virginia University

  Morgantown, WV

2023 - 2016

  • Advising masters and doctoral level students.
  • Authoring and submitting papers to peer reviewed publications.
  • Pulling data from multiple remote sources, constructing static, active, and interactive visualizations for production and/or embedding within reports, and building Shiny apps and APIs within the R/RStudio environment.
  • Developing enhanced and interactive surveys in Qualtrics using HTML, CSS, & Javascipt.
  • Evaluating various programs, projects, and grants.
  • Teaching evaluation and methods based classes with a focus on data science.

Data Analyst

University of Kansas

  Lawrence, KS

2016 - 2014

  • Created web apps in Shiny and Tableau to pull, summarize, and visualize data from the organization’s Oracle database.
  • Led and presented findings from small and large scale qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods studies.
  • Prepared evaluation reports for various stakeholders.
  • Researched and implemented predictive statistical models for student retention and graduation efforts.

Select Projects

Lead Program Evaluator & Methodologist
Healthy Start Initiative: Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health

West Virginia University Research Corporation

  Morgantown, WV

Current - 2023

  • Building valid and reliable survey instruments to assess participant experiences.
  • Implementing process, monitoring, and impact evaluations of programmatic activities.
  • Utilizing mixed methods designs to study participant data.
  • Total Award: $4,870,000
  • HRSA-19-049

Lead Program Evaluator & Mixed Methods Analyst
Teaching Science with Computational Thinking: Preparing Preservice Elementary Educators of the Future STEM Workforce

West Virginia University

  Morgantown, WV

Current - 2022

  • Applying mixed methods text analysis of written and interview data using thematic analysis and various machine learning methods.
  • Constructing and validating survey instruments used to assess progress and programmatic impact.
  • Implementing process and impact evaluations of program activities.
  • Total Award: $294,958.00
  • 2019-NSF 2142274

Program Evaluator & Data Scientist
WVCTSI: West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute

West Virginia University

  Morgantown, WV

2022 - 2017

  • Analyzed large data sets using frequentist and Bayesian methods.
  • Conducted local and multi-site mutli-cluster evaluation studies.
  • Developed/validated items and distributing customized Qualtrics surveys built with CSS and Javascript.
  • Mentored future graduate social data scientists.
  • Pulled, wrangled, and visualized secondary data in R.
  • Total Award: $20,000,000
  • 2017-NIH 2U54GM104942-02

Lead Program Evaluator
GAUSSI: Generating, Analyzing, and Understanding Sensory and Sequencing Information: A Trans-Disciplinary Graduate Training Program in Biosensing and Computational Biology

Colorado State University

  Fort Collins, CO

2020 - 2017

  • Conducted process evaluations of multiple grant related programs.
  • Developed and distributed customized Qualtrics surveys built with CSS and Javascript.
  • Directed unstructured and semi-structured interviews and focus groups assessing participant experiences.
  • Implemented mixed methods evaluations to study program impacts on students and faculty.
  • Pulled, wrangled, and visualized secondary data.
  • Total Award: $3,013,779
  • 2017-NSF 1450032

Select Talks

Best of Both Worlds: Affordances of Mixing Machine Learning and Qualitative Content Analysis

American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting

  San Diego, CA

2022

These Aren’t Random Words Just Strung Together?: Using Machine Learning and Pretty Visualizations to Discover Topics in Articles.

American Evaluation Association Annual Conference

virtual

2020

Why Is It That Writers Write but Fingers Don’t Fing? Using Machine Learning and Lexemes to Make Sense of Nonsense.

American Evaluation Association Annual Conference

  Minneapolis, MN

2019

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Last updated on June 12, 2023